The Two-Minute Art Tip segment opens with several small videos on the screen from past shows plus the text "I like shiny" The title
of the segment also appears which is "Understanding Without Words".
Hello and welcome to cheap Joe's Art Stuff my name is Julie and I'm here to impart some knowledge to you today via a two-minute
art tip and today's tip is where I go on and on telling you about stuff I watched on TV.
This one is about visual communication and what made me think of this was when I was watching a
Netflix documentary. (The Netflix logo appears on screen plus a promo poster of the Stutz series she’s talking about.) This one is called "Stutz", should check it out and it's about a therapist
named Phillip Stutz in what drew me in was in the description it talked about how this
therapist makes little note cards with little drawings (a picture of Stutz is on screen along with a few of the notecards with the drawings on them) on it to kind of explain really in-depth
psychological concepts and simplifies them into like little visual iconography and I was like
oh I gotta see this, but it was so much more than that I encourage people to watch it I absolutely
loved it, but then it started me thinking about like how, how important visual communication is
and how it can speak to someone in ways that all the words in the world can't and it made
me think about how people say "show me don't tell me" you know like if you can break it down
and where you show me something instead of just like going on like I am right now, then it makes
it all the more meaningful. But I was thinking how that translates into all art as well that
it's a visual communication method and how there are there's simple visual communication like a
simple visual language for like very very complex emotions(On screen is a picture of The Kiss by Gustav Klimt) like love and melancholy (a picture of Van Gogh's painting The Portrait of Dr. Gachet is on screen)
and rage (a picture of Artemisia Gentilesch's Judith Slaying Holofernes is on screen) and joy and happiness (The Dance by Matisse is on screen) and all these kinds of things like you know that you understand
um just as a human being exactly what that is and what that feels like and
how that translates and how important visual communication is so when you're composing and
when you're planning out your artwork I think it's always important to like
ask yourself, "What am I trying to say with this, does it does it have
um you know a direct meaning or is this supposed to convey a feeling? Is this just about how an
association that you're trying to make with the viewer is this tranquility, is this quiet, is this
joy, is this um you know stressful what it what is this and will those things read to the viewer
in the way that you're trying to communicate them? Maybe, maybe not, like everybody interprets things
differently and there's large cultural differences in the in the way visual symbology and and meaning
is conveyed to viewers and stuff and does this meaning in essence add value to it or
does it take away like, is what I'm trying to say overloading the the visual space or is it actually
contributing so all I think are valid questions to ask yourself when you are putting a piece together
and like when you back up from it and give it some room and then come back to it in a few minutes and
then you look at it again with fresh eyes like, is that what I meant to say and what what what
are other people seeing when they view that work and is that what I meant? So all like valuable
questions I think that are good to ask and I really really recommend (The Netflix logo and The Stutz promo graphic appear on screen) that you take a look at
Stutz. I thought it was fantastic conversations between friends I think are always amazing and
that's basically what this is so, we hope that you find this helpful and hope that you enjoy.
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